Bicycle Tag of bike

Ah, so it is. What about the Sylvanian Familes on Mountgrove rd?

That's there too. I am getting one of my headaches.

396 ;)
I remember putting both of those on the map. I wish I could remember more important things in life though! winky face...

Apparently I am saying the same as you - if re-tags bother you then check. But for the game as a whole they don't really matter. And I said a day or two back that the map is useless if it is not complete and up to date. Though I have just had a random check and my Gay's The Word tag is not on the map so there may be a few more missing.
I still think a list would be better and easier to check though.

You could switch the map over to one generated by a google docs sheet, which would then give both a list and a map.

I'd posted some links for that earlier

Excellent work map-updaters!

hanuman and malandro repped for services to tagmapdom. If anyone else has helped, please pipe up.

Just to keep on the new page, after all the map debate:

I did a big update of the map last year, at a point where it had fallen about 2 months behind. Fiddly process. MrDrem's suggestion well worth following up.

That is one hell of an ugly sculpture.

Stick a silver wheel on the back and won't look too bad.

I've just taken the time to appreciate how awesome the map is. I will definitely try and keep it updated.

Gotta commend the people updating the map. Tagging is fun, updating google maps isn't so much I'd say.

map updaters repped

hanuman and malandro repped for services to tagmapdom. If anyone else has helped, please pipe up.

I did a few... It's fiddly at first but quite addictive. Good way for me to follow this from abroad.

I did a few... It's fiddly at first but quite addictive. Good way for me to follow this from abroad.

Its true. The first couple are a ballache but then you get into it...

New clue?

I thought I was close at Grosvenor and Bell or even Paul McCunt and that director that married his daughter but no luck

Clue: this place is named for a man remembered only because of his much more famous father-in-law, who is himself commemorated not twenty yards away. It also contains a tribute to the popping of Britain's martial arts cherry, so to speak.

New clue?

The sculpture that Wroncog dislikes so much might have been prettier if it had ever been finished. The sculptor used to have a studio on the site of this memorial area, which is why the work was donated.

More clues later. Oops...

Nice, this was really bugging me. I could be tempted if noone else gets it by tomorrow afternoon. Keep drilling!

I could give you more clues about the father-in-law, and more clues about the wife, but not about the man himself.

This artist, both his wives, and even his daughter all have fascinating stories. It seems our image of this history was such a small world.

There is also an interesting and tenuous link to a David Bowie related tag in the past..

More clues (all about the father-in-law, naturally):

• The memorial to the father-in-law, just a dozen yards away, is much more visible from the main road. It would make a fine tag at any time of year, but particularly the 9th of July.
  
• He was an MP twice (two different seats) and served in a string of important government posts.
  
• He fancied himself as a lion-tamer (metaphorically speaking).
  
• He shot to literary fame out of nowhere.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Added whatok's tag to the map (and went back to Oatsie's jokey style of write-up, in the process).

Old: Epstein sculpture, Roper's Garden, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea

I could give you more clues about the father-in-law (Thomas More), and more clues about the wife (Margaret More), but not about the man himself (William Roper born 1496).

New:

Size matters!

About the previous tag:

Roper's Gardens was originally an orchard that formed part of the marriage gift given by Thomas More to William Roper and Margaret More. The new memorial gardens were built in a space created by a WWII parachute bomb. Among the buildings destroyed was one that had housed Jacob Epstein's studio; his widow made a gift of the unfinished sculpture.

The site contains a number of other art installations and memorials, including a cherry tree commemorating the visit to London of Gunji Koizumi, who introduced Judo to the UK.

I could explain the More clues but it would only annoy Skully. Anybody who's interested in Thomas More will have worked them out.

Other bits:

Epsteins own father in law was Jim Dunlop (veterinarian of pneumatic tyre fame), but his wife tolerated his mistresses, most notable of which was Kathleen Garman, one of the notorious Garman sisters, who were part of the bohemian Bloomsbury set.
This scene was often hosted in many opulent and hedonistic nightclubs in the city, one of which being 'The Cave of the Golden Calf' of which the address can be seen on the cover of David Bowie's album 'The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars', which has featured as a clue to a previous tag.

http://i1.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article774289.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/The+Rise+and+Fall+of+Ziggy+Stardust+and+the+Spiders+from+Mars+-+David+Bowie

Epstein and other notable artists of the period donated decorations for the club.

His daughter with Kathleen, Kitty, also went on to be Lucian Freuds first wife, whom you may recognise:

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Observer/Columnist/Columnists/2012/2/8/1328718486302/kitty-freud-001.jpg

Intense!

Very interesting little spot there, absolutely crammed with history. A little curious fact about the Mores I came across, Thomas More's head is apparently in William Roper's grave. When Thomas More was executed for refusing to accept Henry VIII as head of the Church of England, his head was impaled on a spike on London Bridge as was customary. However, his daughter Margaret bribed the person whose job was to throw the head into the river to hand it over to her instead. She pickled it in spices and when she died, Roper took possession. It found its final resting place in Roper's own grave. Not sure if that could be called 'utopia', a concept that Thomas More himself coined.

Have you read Utopia? It doesn't sound much like that!